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axmods. ([personal profile] ataraxites) wrote in [community profile] ataraxionlogs2014-02-07 09:55 pm

twenty-eighth jump;

CHARACTERS: Any and all.
LOCATION: Gravity Couches and beyond.
WARNINGS: Maybe some swearing, or even some violence, and more than likely some implied (and possibly explicit) nakedness.
SUMMARY: Another month, another jump, another round of new faces.
NOTES: It could just be the standard sensation of air on wet skin, but if you bother to check, you might notice the steam rising from your body, barely there and gone within a minute. By the time you get to the showers, it will be clear that it's not just taking you time to adjust. The room is cold — colder than usual, but no worse than the last jump. While it's nothing dangerous, it's certainly motivation to hurry through the usual routine and get dressed quickly.



It's getting closer.





YOUR EYES ARE OPEN.

KEEP LOOKING.


You wake up in darkness.


There's a breathing tube jammed down your trachea, and you're suspended in a tube of clear blue fluid. Upon registering your level of consciousness, the gravity couch drains the fluid surrounding you and retracts the breathing apparatus; the doors in front of you open, and you're deposited on the floor of a stark, sterile medical bay.

You are not alone.

There are others who have come before you, others who are awakening beside you. Some may be familiar to you, perhaps even friends. Others have much less amiable plans. Some are merely alien and inexplicable, but there are always those who might mean you harm.

After you catch your breath and your vision returns, you notice a number on the inside of your forearm. Maybe it's a familiar number. Maybe it means something. Maybe it's just a number. But the number—completely unique to you—is a tattoo, and it does not come off.

If you enter the room adjacent to the medbay, you will find a small locker with your number on it, surrounded by rows upon rows of identical lockers. Inside, you will find a few of your personal items, a communications device, and a ship's uniform in your exact size. The comms device is fully powered and connects directly to the ship's network; it's your only means of communication beyond physical conversation. Upon turning the device on, a neutral, automated voice will say, "Please take the blue lift to the passenger quarters." Any other attempts at communicating with the rest of the network are met only with static.

This is your welcome party.
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[personal profile] jurisimpudent 2014-02-19 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
[And Edgeworth's response is - perhaps not surprisingly - excessively earnest: he reassures Veronica firmly:]

You needn't worry about that. Pess would never do any harm.

[Which is foolish, because he knows full well that Veronica was joking around, and because at that very moment Pess had twisted her head to chew playfully and delightedly on Veronica's fingers, giving a little huffy growl of happiness. Edgeworth is flustered enough by the stupidity of what he said and his damnable dog giving the lie to what he just said that he cannot quite follow up with any sort of dignity on Veronica keeping clear of the files.

Especially not with her assessing the security team as doing good work. There are few compliments which will go to Edgeworth's head; being called handsome or charming or even smart will just make him irritable and snappish. You help people, though, hits him right at his core, makes him a bit stupid with pride.]


In any case. I hope that you will continue to assess us with a careful eye, Ms. Mars, and I hope that if you see us no longer doing good work then you will speak up against us harshly. We have no law here, and so it would be far too easy for us to become tyrannical; I fear that the people here would not recognize it if they saw it. But you are intelligent, and you have a critical eye; it's people like you who must keep us in check.
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[personal profile] sleuthtastic 2014-02-25 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ Veronica seems happy to be absorbed in that for a moment, laughs as she twists her fingers, voice taking on a higher pitch. ]

Oh, you got me!

[ Still, after a beat Veronica shifts her fingers away, gives Pess a short scratch between the ears before she stands again. Edgeworth's— good. Methodical, someone she would have liked to have back home she realizes, which is— not something she wants to look at too closely. Maybe it would have been easier, having someone like him, in the days following Lily's death. If—

Well, Veronica. You know what they say about ifs.
]

I know.

[ And then — because Veronica smiles and then feels something strange that feels like that tug of friendship, or maybe guilt, though the guilt is a little more difficult to place — she reaches out and punches him in the shoulder. ]

Go get some rest, okay?